We have long advocated improvements to the system of archive deposition in local and regional museums and the creation of regional depositories to hold archives from developer-funded and amateur/voluntary excavations in perpetuity. The funding crisis has only deepened the crisis surrounding the long term curation of archaeological archives.

RESCUE, however, argue that, especially in a time of funding crisis, we need to ensure that the research potential of archives is not diminished by attempts to deal with immediate storage problems by selective disposal of archives.